Ensuring Your Tax-Exempt Status: An Executive Briefing- Handout

March 13, 2009 The challenges to ensuring the tax-exempt status of non-profit behavioral health organizations was the topic of a presentation given by John Talbot, Ph.D., executive vice president and senior associate of OPEN MINDS. The presentation was given March 13, 2009 at the Best Practices Management Institute produced by OPEN MINDS in Clearwater Beach, Florida. In order to maintain tax-exempt status, organizations should take the following actions: Begin to prepare for the organizations tax-exempt status to be questioned by local, state, and federal officials; involve both the senior management team and the board of . . .